A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published in August 2017 reported national and state estimates of the numbers of adults and children with active epilepsy in the US in 2015. In an expert interview, Dr. Privitera, past president of the AES, 2016, discusses the implications of the latest data including the […]

Electrophysiology changes the game Demonstrating that a potential anti-epilepsy compound has the expected effect requires different stages of analysis, at the neuronal network but also at the cellular level. Two electrophysiological techniques, the Multi-Electrode Array and the patch-clamp, greatly aid in these analyses in a highly complementary fashion. Explanations by Chun-Yao LEE and […]